This piece leads on from an earlier
blog focusing on the beauty of imperfection, and explores our opinion
as a race that any blemish is unpleasant and displeasing, and spoils
a perfect surface, especially true in context with the human body.
The base is manufactured from molten
iron, complete with inclusions, impurities and gas holes. The
“imperfection” itself is a smooth shiny stainless steel ball
bearing.
I have aimed to portray that both the
base of the piece and the focal point of the piece to be the exact
opposite of what we would normally expect them to be – the “skin”
is old, corroded and damaged, the “blemish” conversely is
perfect.
This latest sculpture is one I have
been aiming to create for some time, but until recently, the raw
material has proved somewhat elusive, despite many beach combing
excursions and trawls through scrap yards. However, found quite by
accident on a hill side in North Wales the base is a piece of melted cast
iron – according to the local land owner, it is the residue of a
significant fire some 50 years ago.
